[国会记录：2011年8月2日（参议院）] [第S5230]悼念爱德华列文克里。主席先生，我很高兴，但也有悲伤的时刻为外交关系委员会的成员利用这个时间来庆祝的服务，也赞扬参议院的伟大工作人员的一个退休：埃德·莱文。埃德本周退休后一个显着的35年的参议院 - 比大多数参议员长得多得到服务，大多数员工在这里有胆量挂在那里和服务。在他几十年的服务，爱德已经向外交关系委员会提供明智和敏锐的律师向两个委员会，很多议员，以及最近。他的外交政策的深入了解以及他非凡的这个机构的意义上是真正会错过我的意思是极大地错过了。他从小就和他去学校在华盛顿特区，他出发去伯克利之前再后来到耶鲁大学。当他在这个社会是一个年轻的男子在这里，他经常骑电车到乔治亚大街，在那里他将观看参议员格里菲斯体育场比赛。对于那些谁是太年轻，还记得，实际上是一个名为参议员曾几何时棒球队。他没有看这里的乡亲格里菲斯体育场播放。但是，当华盛顿参议员留下好成为德州游骑兵，我不得不指望埃德刚刚决定，美国参议员留在镇上唯一的游戏，他一直在这里至今。 He first came to the Senate in 1976. He joined the Select Committee on Intelligence back then--literally right after it was established. It was a historic moment. Those who remember their history of the 1970s remember that was a time of great consternation about the covert activities of the CIA. The activities and the oversight of the CIA became a major national issue and concern. So it was a historic moment when the Senate was reasserting its constitutional responsibility to provide oversight. Ed spent the next 20 years overseeing some of the Nation's most sensitive programs and some of its most closely guarded secrets. He was trusted with some of the most secret information of our country because he never had anything but the interests of our country and the security of the Nation foremost in his mind. I think that is also borne out in the fact that through the course of his career, he worked for Members of both sides of the aisle while he was on the Intelligence Committee. He served on that committee as the personal representative of Republican Senator Clifford Case and then Republican Senator David Durenberger, and then later for Democratic Senators Howard Metzenbaum and Chuck Robb. His work for the Intelligence Committee exemplified a standard of public service that puts the fulfillment of the Senate's constitutional duties above any other partisan concerns. For him, there never was a party issue, Republican or Democrat, or an ideological issue, liberal or conservative. It was: What are the best interests of the United States of America and how do we protect its security? He has applied that very same approach to his work on the Foreign Relations Committee, where I have had the privilege of watching him work over the course of the 26 years I have been here. He worked mostly previously for now-Vice President Biden. A few days ago, we held a business meeting at the Foreign Relations Committee, and it was characteristic of Ed's diligence in representing the interests of country above party that Senator Lugar, the ranking member of the committee, and who has served with him for a long time, took time to acknowledge his service and to note how constructively he had worked with the Republican counterparts on the committee over these many years. We saw that in large measure last year when we considered the New START treaty, in which Ed played an integral role. You know, I might mention to colleagues, when Vice President Biden was Senator Biden and chairman of the committee, he coined a nickname for Ed. He called him ``Fast Eddie.'' And the irony of that for all of us who know him is that Ed does not do ``fast.'' He is one of the most careful and deliberate thinkers on our staff, and that is one of the things people valued in him the most. It was never a hip shot. It was always based on thinking, research, experience, and knowledge. His knowledge of arms control, I may say, is encyclopedic. During the New START debate, we had a war room set up one floor below this in the Foreign Relations Committee room, with dozens of experts from the various departments of our government, and stacks of briefing books, and instant computer linkage to the State Department, to the Defense Department, Intelligence, and so forth, but often when we had a question, all we had to do was turn to Ed and he would know the answer from right up here in his head, from his experience. That is not surprising, given how many treaties Ed has helped this body to consider during his career. He worked on the INF Treaty, on the START I treaty, on the START II treaty, on the Chemical Weapons Convention, on the Convention on Conventional Weapons. I went up to him a moment ago. I saw he was wearing a tie with a sword being beaten into plowshares, and he reminded me that came from the mutual and balanced force reduction treaty, which he said was the only thing they could agree on, but he is proudly wearing it today. What all of this adds up to is that Ed spent a great chunk of his life doing his best to help the Senate protect our Nation from the most dangerous weapons that ever existed. He did it with such professionalism, even, I might add, when faced with personal loss, as when his father died last year right during the consideration of the treaty, but it did not stop Ed from doing his duty. All of his Senate service is a real testament to his character. That he earned the respect from the Members he served and the staff he worked with is a testament to his great skill and knowledge. And that he has done so for so many years is a testament to his sense of public citizenship and his love of country. So, Ed, we thank you, all the Members of the Senate, for your service. We will miss you in the Senate. I wish you personally the best in all of your future endeavors. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________